Daily Medieval

Yesterday's post mentioned one of the most influential books on history that formed the foundation of the medieval era's understand...

Priscillianism was considered heretical partially because its origin was in gnostic beliefs coming from Egypt. Gnosticism, from the Greek γν...

Priscillian (c.340 - 385) was a good enough theologian that he was made Bishop of Ávila Spain in 380, but controversial enough that he had m...

Priscillian was the first person to be excommunicated and  executed (that we know of) because of his "heretical" beliefs. I use th...